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Book: The View from Saturday
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
You must thing of those six steps not as preparation for the beginning but as the beginning itself" p10
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
Something made me pull sounds out of my silence...
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
I chose a brunette, a redhead, a blond, and a kid with hair as black as print on paper.
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
Mrs. Olinski was the first teacher Epiphany ever had who taught from a wheelchair.
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
Julian Singh," he said, extending his hand. No one {a} introduces himself and then {b} extends his hand to be shaken while {c} wearing shorts and {d} knee socks and {e} holding a genuine leather book bag on {f} the first day of school.
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
The storm in our private lives had picked him up and put him out of place. Me, too. I, too, had been picked up from one place and set down in another. I, too, had been stranded. We both needed help resettling.
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using.
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
He also learned to regard each port of call as part of the journey and not as destination. Every voyage begins when you do."
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they were a team as soon as they became The Souls. Then after a while, teacher and team agreed that they were arguing chicken-or-egg. Whichever way it began--chicken-or-egg, team-or-The Souls--it definitely ended with an egg. Definitely, an egg.
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary.
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.
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E.L. Konigsburg _ The View from Saturday
Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.
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